In a perfect world, I would now sketch out how to build a decentralized version of Facebook. But I seem to have too much else to do right now. So, at very least, that will have to wait for another day.

tobyink: shellac : all data is from radio times (channel names, logos, program times, descriptions, categories, etc).
[18:43] tobyink: see http://wiki.xmltv.org/index.php/Main_Page - screen scapers for a variety of sites (covering most of the world) to convert TV listings into XML. Radio Times is actually an exception, as they liked the XMLTV idea so much that they provide data in XMLTV format.
[18:43] tobyink: My script parses the XML and formats it as XHTML+RDFa.
[18:44] tobyink: I will eventually get around to releasing it.

Although the promise of Tim Berners-Lee's Semantic Web is yet to be fully realized, the years of thinking and research that have gone into it are starting to bear fruit in terms of solutions to practical problems that people face today. The strong col